| Speakers |
| John Landeryou Event Chair Association of Employment & Learning Providers John is director of his own consultancy company specialising in strategy and quality in further and higher education and skills, working with organisations in the public and private sector. He works on a part time basis for AELP and is involved in a range of sector wide initiatives. He is also a member of the National Improvement Partnership Board. Immediately prior to this he was Director of Further Education in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) where he was responsible for advising ministers on further education and lifelong learning policy. Previously he was Director of Improvement in DIUS. During his earlier career he had extensive experience of inspection and quality improvement work, designing inspection regimes in the ALI and heading up Ofsted’s post-16 and learning and skills work. He has also held senior positions in education business partnerships, local authorities, and a Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise, having originally started out as a teacher. | |
| Marina Gaze HMI Deputy Director, Further Education and Skills Ofsted Marina Gaze is Ofsted’s Deputy Director, Further Education & Skills, and is responsible for the continuous development of Ofsted’s policy and methodology in this area. Previously, she was a Senior HMI responsible for Ofsted’s further education and skills work in the East Midlands and Ofsted’s judicial services inspections nationally. Marina has 13 years inspection experience of work-based learning, judicial services, colleges and community learning. She has 10 years of teaching experience as a programme director and director of a learning provider and six years as a chief external verifier. Marina developed and delivered Masters’ degrees in inspection with the Institute of Education and University of Warwick. | |
| Paul Warner Director of Employment and Skills Association of Employment and Learning Providers Having been a specialist recruitment consultant to the defence industry for six years, Paul started in the post-16 sector in 1993 working on Training for Work contracts for TBG Learning. He subsequently took on a variety of related operational and senior management roles, culminating in a successful tenure as Director of Business Development. On leaving TBG he worked as a consultant for a time, including a spell managing WBL delivery at Barking College in East London, before joining AELP in September 2003 where he now oversees all aspects of operational and policy delivery, particularly concentrating on the alignment of the skills and employability agendas. Paul holds a First Class Honours degree in International Relations from the University of Keele, and an MA in Post-Compulsory Education and Training from the University of Sheffield. He is a Director of the Institute of Employability Professionals and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Married with one daughter, hailing from the New Forest but living in Essex, he lists his hobbies as rock music, amateur dramatics and karate. | |
| Paul Eeles Chief Executive EMFEC and ABC Awards Group Paul has over 25 years’ experience in the post-16 sector. The first seven years as a lecturer. He has 13 years’ experience of managing WBL in both a College and with independent providers. Paul spent three years as Group Training Director of a national licensed retail training provider before setting up his own training company. He has been an external verifier for an awarding body and has 12 years’ experience as an associate inspector in the FE sector working for Ofsted, ALI and the Training Standards Council. Prior to joining EMFEC and ABC Awards, Paul was Director of Sector Reforms and 14-19 at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) where he had been part of the senior management team since February 2005. At AELP Paul led nationally on policy reform related to 14-19, Apprenticeships, Machinery of Government Changes, Sector Skills Councils, Quality Improvement, Inspection, Qualification Reform and Workforce Reform. Paul worked closely with officials from the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and stakeholder organisations to represent the interests of his members sitting on many government and stakeholder bodies advisory, stakeholder and management groups. Paul’s first degree is a business management degree specialising in Hotel & Catering Management jointly from The University of Central England and the Birmingham College of Food. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Training Management from the University of Wolverhampton and a Masters in Personnel & Development from the University of Plymouth. In addition Paul is a Fellow Member of the British Institute of Innkeeping, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and an Associate Member of the Institute of Learning. Paul is married with two teenage sons. | |
| Victor Shafiee HMI Further Education and Skill Senior HMI Ofsted Victor Shafiee is a Senior HMI. He joined Ofsted in 2007, having previously worked for the Adult Learning Inspectorate and held management positions in public and private organisations. He is a qualified further education lecturer. Victor has a Master’s degree in education and holds a post-graduate qualification in management. He has extensive experience of teaching management and leadership. As one of Ofsted’s senior managers, his national responsibilities include overseeing the delivery of all work-based learning inspections. He is the Further Education and Skill Senior HMI responsible for North and West London. | |
| Jenny Williams Director of Vocational Education and Training The Education and Training Foundation Jenny has over 20 years’ experience of developing policy and practice in further and adult education and training locally, regionally and nationally. Prior to transferring to the Education and Training Foundation, she led the work of the Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning and authored the Commission’s report It’s about work… Excellent adult vocational teaching and learning. Before joining LSIS in 2010, Jenny managed the NIACE Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning and co-authored two of the Inquiry’s supplementary research papers; on public and private investment in adult learning, and work and learning. At local level, Jenny started her career at Dorset Training and Enterprise Council, before moving to Southampton to manage the City’s adult and community learning service. She also spent 4 years as NIACE’s regional development officer for the South East, promoting adult learning in the context of economic and social priorities, and led a £1.8 million ESF co-financed project to develop a network of learning communities with public, private and third sector partners. | |
